ROCK HUDSON LEAVES PARIS FOR U.S. ON CHARTERED JET

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The actor Rock Hudson, who has acquired immune deficiency sydrome, was carried aboard a chartered plane that left for Los Angeles late today after eight days at the American Hospital.

Mr. Hudson was flown from the hospital to the Charles de Gaulle Airport in a medical helicopter and taken by stretcher aboard an Air France Boeing 747 jet for flight to Los Angeles.

The 59-year-old actor lay without moving on the stretcher while being carried onto the jet. Ten other people also boarded. According to news reports, Mr. Hudson was headed for a hospital in Los Angeles.

Confusion about his situation grew today when Mr. Hudson's spokesman, Yanou Collart, said he ''has not been treated for AIDS while at'' the American Hospital. She would not elaborate on the comment, which appeared to refute reports that he was being treated with the experimental drug HPA-23. She had said last week that the actor had come to Paris to seek treatment for AIDS. She said he had been diagnosed as having it a year ago.

She said he was in stable condition.

Spokesmen for Mr. Hudson could not be reached later for comment about the unexpected flight to Los Angeles. Earlier today, a spokesman for the United States embassy here, Phil Brown, said the French Defense Ministry agreed last week to a request by Mr. Hudson for a transfer to a French military hospital ''if his condition warrants it.'' Mr. Brown termed the request ''exceptional'' because he said American citizens usually ask to be admitted to civilian hospitals.

He said he did not know which hospital Mr. Hudson had in mind but he ''presumed'' it would be in the French capital.

Mr. Hudson had been taken to the American Hospital after he collapsed at the Ritz hotel July 21.

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